Tom Hanks
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...
5) Toy story
Author
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Woody, the cowboy, and Buzz, a space ranger, are rival toys until they must work together to escape the toy-torturing boy next door.
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril's son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly...
Publisher
TriStar Pictures
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
After hearing a man confess his love for his dearly departed wife on a call-in radio show, a woman falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. Deciding he is her destiny, she treks across country on a wildly romantic impulse to meet him.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When John Coffey arrives on the death row cellblock at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, the prison guards discover that he has mysterious powers hidden within him; convicted for a murder he did not commit, a quiet banker struggles to cope with prison life anddevelops a friendship with another inmate.
10) Saving Mr. Banks
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her...
11) Inferno
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Enter
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When Harvard professor Robert Langdon awakens with amnesia in an Italian hospital, he teams up with a doctor, and together they travel across Europe in an effort to foil a deadly global plot.
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.
14) Sully
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain Chesley Sullenberger, nicknamed "Sully" glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career. Includes...
15) Toy story 2
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The fun and adventure continues when Andy goes off to cowboy camp and the toys are left to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody, who hasn't the slightest clue that he's a greatly valued collectible.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved-but-dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction. Nominated for Best First Documentary, Best Documentary, and Best Director at the **Critics' Choice Documentary Awards**. Winner of Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking: Directing at the **Newport Beach Film Festival**. *"A rich, thoughtful,...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997?]
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war. Reluctant at first, he finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team. Based on a true story.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On Christmas Eve, a young boy is visited by a conductor and his steam engine, and is taken on an extraordinary journey to the North Pole; the Grinch decides that he can't take any more happiness from Whoville, so he and his dog Max steal everything from the village, but in the process he learns that Christmas is more than presents.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go"--
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...